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In reply to the discussion: "It increasingly looks like Russian hackers may have affected actual vote totals." [View all]wildeyed
(11,243 posts)That's a feature, not a defect. They PLANNED it that way long ago. Democrats are generally poorer, blacker and younger than Reps. They are less likely to own a home so they move often and less likely to drive. This makes maintaining current ID more difficult. So they pretend there is a voter fraud problem and 'solve' it with voter ID laws.
Dems also tend to live in segregated areas, so you can cut the number of voting machines to create lines or 'run out' of ballots and cut turnout that way. All of these things make Dems more vulnerable to straight-up voter suppression. GOP doesn't HAVE to hack the database to get results. There is no evidence that they did either.
There is INTENSE voter protection work in NC. Multiple groups comb through all of the data, compare it to previous years to see if there is suppression. The findings are used in court cases that go all the way to the Supreme Court. We had a massive number of election protection volunteers ON SITE at almost every precinct, particularly in minority districts. If there were problems with the roll, we would know. If machines were flipping votes consistently, we would also know.
Can't speak for Wisconsin, but I would assume there are similar efforts there.
I WISH it was as simple as someone hacking a voting machine. That is an easy problem to address. It is a crime. They can be caught and prosecuted. But the truth is much more complicated. And you do no service to those trying to address the injustice by spreading false rumors.